Ms Bennett continued: "We have the European Commissioners who are appointed by elected governments from all round Europe.

"We have the council of Europe which makes many of the final decisions.

"That is a gathering of the elected governments from all round Europe."

Ms Bennett, who is campaigning for Britain to Remain in the EU, also said immigrants were not to blame for the low wage culture in the UK.

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She said: "Research shows that this is not true.

"What that relies on is the ‘lump of labour fallacy’ – the idea that there is a certain number of jobs to go around and that’s it.

"The reality is that we have a low age economy because we have an inadequate minimum wage, inadequately enforced.

"We also have multi-national companies who have been allowed to dominate our economy - companies that very often use zero hours contracts, minimum wages, they're not paying their way with taxes.

"People talk about sovereignty, but the decisions around privatisation, public services, decisions about small business being bulldozed by big business – those decisions were all made by Westminster, not by Brussels."